BBC News

===1960s===
On 1 January 1960, Greene became [[Director general|Director-General]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tight|first=Malcolm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46|title=Education for Adults|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-68517-7|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132647/https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q=On%201%20January%201960%2C%20Greene%20became%20Director-General%20and%20brought%20about%20big%20changes%20at%20BBC%20Television%20and%20BBC%20Television%20News&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Greene made changes that were aimed at making BBC reporting more similar to its competitor ITN, which had been highly rated by study groups held by Greene.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|chapter=The Reinvention of Radio — The 1960s|date=2011|pages=80–100|editor-last=Chignell|editor-first=Hugh|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230346451_5|isbn=978-0-230-34645-1}}</ref>

A newsroom was created at Alexandra Palace, television reporters were recruited and given the opportunity to write and voice their own scripts–without having to cover stories for radio too.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

On 20 June 1960, [[Nan Winton]], the first female BBC network newsreader, appeared in vision.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nan Winton, the first woman to read the national news on BBC television|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|date=30 May 2019|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=30 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330185500/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 19 September 1960 saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme ''The Ten O'clock News''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=bbc+news+the+start+of+the+radio+news+and+current+affairs+programme+The+Ten+O'clock+News&pg=PA83|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[BBC Two|BBC2]] started transmission on 20 April 1964 and began broadcasting a new show, ''[[Newsroom (BBC programme)|Newsroom]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=House of Lords - Communications - Minutes of Evidence|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|website=publications.parliament.uk|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160952/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The World at One]]'', a lunchtime news programme, began on 4 October 1965 on the then Home Service, and the year before ''News Review'' had started on television. ''News Review'' was a summary of the week's news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1964|access-date=3 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070303014530/http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm| archive-date= 3 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly ''Newsreel Review of the Week'', produced from 1951, to open programming on Sunday evenings–the difference being that this incarnation had subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. As this was the decade before electronic caption generation, each superimposition ("super") had to be produced on paper or card, synchronised manually to studio and news [[footage]], committed to tape during the afternoon, and broadcast early evening. Thus Sundays were no longer a quiet day for news at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The programme ran until the 1980s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |title=TV Ark: BBC News |access-date=16 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516061628/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |archive-date=16 May 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref>{{snd}} by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor{{snd}} to be superseded by [[Ceefax]] subtitling (a similar [[Teletext]] format), and the signing of such programmes as ''[[See Hear]]'' (from 1981).

On Sunday 17 September 1967, ''[[The World This Weekend]]'', a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]].

Preparations for colour began in the autumn of 1967 and on Thursday 7 March 1968 ''Newsroom'' on BBC2 moved to an early evening slot, becoming the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf History of the BBC – key dates page 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424053328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf |date=24 April 2009 }} BBC Heritage 1960s.</ref>{{snd}} from Studio A at Alexandra Palace. ''News Review'' and ''Westminster'' (the latter a weekly review of [[Palace of Westminster|Parliamentary]] happenings) were "colourised" shortly after.

However, much of the insert material was still in black and white, as initially only a part of the film coverage shot in and around London was on colour [[reversal film]] [[film stock|stock]], and all regional and many international contributions were still in black and white. Colour facilities at Alexandra Palace were technically very limited for the next eighteen months, as it had only one [[RCA]] colour [[Quadruplex videotape]] machine and, eventually two [[Pye Ltd.|Pye]] [[Diode gun Plumbicon#Plumbicon|plumbicon]] colour [[telecine]]s–although the news colour service started with just one.

Black and white national bulletins on BBC 1 continued to originate from Studio B on weekdays, along with ''[[Town and Around]]'', the London regional "[[opt out]]" programme broadcast throughout the 1960s (and the BBC's first regional news programme for the South East), until it started to be replaced by ''[[Nationwide (TV programme)|Nationwide]]'' on Tuesday to Thursday from Lime Grove Studios early in September 1969. ''Town and Around'' was never to make the move to Television Centre{{snd}} instead it became ''London This Week'' which aired on Mondays and Fridays only, from the new TVC studios.<ref>''London This Week'' had started in early 1969 as a once per week "opt out" replacing the Friday edition of ''Town and Around'' {{cite web|url=http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/|title=TV & Radio Bits: BBC South East: History|access-date=21 June 2007}}{{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

[[File:BBC TV Centre.jpg|thumb|right|Television News moved to [[BBC Television Centre]] in September 1969.]]

The BBC moved production out of Alexandra Palace in 1969. BBC Television News resumed operations the next day with a lunchtime bulletin on BBC1{{snd}} in black and white{{snd}} from Television Centre, where it remained until March 2013.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

This move to a smaller studio with better technical facilities allowed ''Newsroom'' and ''News Review'' to replace [[back projection]] with [[colour-separation overlay]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} During the 1960s, [[Communications satellite|satellite communication]] had become possible;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|title= British TV History – Early Satellite <!--here only the homepage title says "Broadcast" instead (is it better?):-->Relays to/from Britain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510052949/http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|archive-date=10 May 2011}} 1960s & 70s, British TV History</ref> however, it was some years before digital line-store conversion was able to undertake the process seamlessly.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}